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The NEAAR Collaboration: Supporting low-cost PerfSONAR deployments for end-to-end perfomance monitoring
(2017-11-03)The Networks for European, American, and African Research (NEAAR) collaboration, led by Indiana University and GEANT in partnership with the UbuntuNet Alliance, WACREN, ASREN, SANReN, and TENET, is building a dynamic ... -
NRENs, library consortia and government: Helical Nexus for democratising access to scholarship in Zimbabwe
(2017-11-02)The propagation of NRENs in Africa is transforming the knowledge infospheres through providing internet connectivity to enhance research collaboration and shareability of research output among researchers irrespective of ... -
Open Access, Open Science, Open Data: Who will benefit? A user profile
(2017-11)The scientific community aspires about unlimited and open access to knowledge and information. Just a click and researchers enter the Nirvana of databases, libraries and communication platforms around the globe. Thanks to ... -
Peoples-uni: public health capacity building through online education
(2017-11-03)The mission of Peoples-uni (http://peoples-uni.org) is to build Public Health capacity to meet the enormous needs for improving the health of populations in Low- to Middle-Income Countries (LMICs). Open content and open ... -
A Pilot Survey on Institutional Enablers and Barriers Affecting the Evolving Role of Librarians in African Higher Educational Institutions
(2017-11-02)Background African higher education institutions (HEIs), like many in this sector worldwide, are experiencing a confluence of forces that are set to influence the direction taken by these institutions in the foreseeable ... -
Promoting Collaborative Research among State Universities in Zimbabwe through Identity Federation and Researcher Information Management
(2017-11-03)Normally, the process of applying to universities in Zimbabwe is a generally redundant activity which involves filling in application forms to the multiple local universities using the exact same information on all forms. ... -
Reorganizing for Efficiency: Framework for National Education and Research Stakeholders Collaboration
(2017-11-02)National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) are involved with diverse activities ranging from core connectivity to simply brokerage. Some of the services are so indispensable to research and education institutions ... -
Research driven Innovation: A collaborative approach for developing countries’ research Uptake
(2017-11-03)This paper aimed at assessing the impact of the pre-incubation approach to students’ ideas uptake at the University of Dar es Salaam and establishes a framework with which the research uptake can follow suit. The first ... -
Research Metrics: Does it matter in the African scholarship and collaboration?
(2017-11-03)Review of literature reveals that Africa’s contribution to global knowledge and innovations is still rated at low. Scholarly communication in the region is bedeviled by among others, poor discovery and access to local ... -
Technical Capacity Building and the Growth of an NREN - Case Study: RENU since 2014
(2017-11-02)An NREN network is an aggregation of member institution networks. Sadly, the state of the member institution networks, and the technical competence of member institution network and systems administrators are, many a time, ... -
Utilizing Virtual Learning and a Virtual GIS Computer Laboratory in Spatial Sciences Learning for the Expanded Open Distance Education at Mzuzu University
(2017-11-03)This article describes the application of an emerging virtual learning environment for the teaching of GIS and spatial sciences to open and distance learning (ODL) graduate as well as undergraduate students of Mzuzu ... -
Without data, science is merely an opinion: the African Open Science Platform project
(2017-11-02)The Science International Accord on Open Data in a Big Data World presents an inclusive vision of the need for and the benefits of Open Data for science internationally, and in particular for Lower and Middle Income ...